Patrice Killoffer

Patrice Killoffer, better known simply as Killoffer, (born 16 June 1966 in Metz, France) is an illustrator and a writer and artist of comics. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher L'Association in 1990, and has been a part of Oubapo since its creation in 1992.

Biography

Patrice Killoffer studied at the School for Applied Arts Duperré in Paris in the 1980s. His teachers included comics authors Georges Pichard and Yves Got, who influenced him in his early works. He created his first pages in 1981, during his studies.

In 1987, he made the first issue of the magazine "Pas un seul" with Jean-Yves Duhoo. In the follwoing years, he published in the magazines "Globof", "Lynx", and "Labo", which was published by Futuropolis. Since 1990, he publishes regularly in "Lapin", the magazine of publisher "L'Association", which later published three of his albums.

More recently, he has published in the magazine "Psikopat" and he produces illustrations for the newspapers "Libération" and "Le Monde", and writesa column for "La Vie". In 2000, he was one of three artists responsible for the carnaval at Saint-Denis. [ [http://www.humanite.fr/2000-06-17_Cultures_-Saint-Denis-fait-sa-Carnavalcade Carnaval in Saint-Denis] in "L'Humanité", June 17 2000] Since 2006, he is the illustrator of the books of "Fantômette", a classic French series of youth literature. Killoffer also created four stamps for the Swiss Post in 2006, [ [http://www.swisspost.ch/en/ph_lupe_02_2006_schweiz.pdf Swiss Post] announcement of the Killoffer stamps, with Killoffer interview] making him the first foreign artist to design Swiss stamps. [ [http://www.swissinfo.org/fre/suisse/agences/index/Premiere_pour_La_Poste_un_Fran_ais_va_dessiner_des_timbres_suisses.html?siteSect=113&sid=6637500&cKey=1145354487000 Swissinfo] about Killoffers stamps, April 16 2006]

Some of his works have been translated in Dutch and German. "676 Apparitions of Killoffer" is his first work to be translated in English. [http://www.typocrat.com/Misc/killofferinterview.htm Typocrat] Killoffer interview from December 2005]

Influences

Apart from his teachers, Killoffer cites as his influences the Dutch artists Willem and Joost Swarte. He also admires the work of Moebius. But despite these ligne claire influences, he is considered as the most experimental author of L'Association. [ [http://www.nzz.ch/2007/05/25/fe/articleF6A3Z.html Review of 676 Apparitions] in the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", 25 May 2007]

Awards

* 2003: nominated for the Award for Best Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
* 2005: nominated for the Award for Best Artwork at the Angoulême International Comics Festival

Bibliography

* "Killoffer en la matière", L'Association, 1992
* "?", Automne 67, 1994
* "Billet SVP", L'Association, 1995
* "La Clef des champs", L'Association, 1997
* "La Bactérie", Les 4 mers, 1998
* "Viva Pâtàmâch !" (art), with Jean-Louis Capron (text), Le Seuil, 2001
* "Six cent soixante-seize apparitions de Killoffer" "(676 apparitions of Killoffer)", L'Association, 2002, published in English in 2005 by Typocrat Press [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/nov/20/books.booksnews English translation of "676 Apparitions"] announced in "The Guardian", November 20 2005"]
* "Donjon Monsters" part 9 : "Les Profondeurs" (art), with Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar (text), Delcourt
* "Le Rock et si je ne m'abuse le roll", L'Association, 2006
* "Quand faut y aller", L'Association, 2006
* "Léon l'étron", Thierry Magnier, 2007

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